DrEvil wrote:What I'm more worried about is the lack of regulation for the long term implications of this kind of technology. This stuff is coming, so we need to start thinking about how to handle it. I would like to see an absolute ban on things like coerced mind-reading by law enforcement for instance, or Facebook targeting ads based on what you're thinking. The privacy of our own minds should be absolute, and the penalties for breaking that privacy should be absolutely fucking draconian, no exceptions or loopholes.
This needs to be seen in perspective.There is a relatively recent invention called the telephone. This clever device is touted as the solution to our communications needs. Yes, it will make communication faster and easier, but has anyone considered the nightmarish consequences of putting these technological machines into every home?
You see, these telephones are all connected together by wires. It is a simple matter of running a pair of these wires to location
where the government can listen to our every conversation, every business deal, every romantic exchange—in short, everything we do in our lives conducted over the telephone.
What effect will this omnipresent spectre of eavedropping on our everyday existences—presumably by government, God forbid the Russians!—have on our psychological well being? Is anyone asking these questions as telephones are rushed into production with the goal of installing one
in every home? And you can be sure that American families will themselves be made to pay for this sinister intrusion. The telephone will be branded as
necessary for life, an indespensible accessory that everyone must own; those without a telephone will find it difficult to get work, difficult to find a mate, difficult to do business. The poor will only get poorer while the rich get richer. Yet the proponents of the telephone advertise only its supposed benefits (little that couldn't be accomplished in a few days with a well-written letter).
The scheme to
telefornicate America comes with another price: every household and business is to be assigned a
number associated with their telephone. We're already burdened with Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, bank account numbers and insurance policy numbers. Do we really each need another
number to make it easier for government and industry to keep track of us and even know our private thoughts? This is just another way to control the population.
And this is just the beginning.
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